tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17421284.post6911972541919851032..comments2024-02-17T00:59:32.163-08:00Comments on My Take by GVK: Mundane story behind a media scoopGVKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17350402171842472556noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17421284.post-48795440381965590312007-02-12T12:55:00.000-08:002007-02-12T12:55:00.000-08:00"Goenka directed chief reporter Ganapathy Sharma t..."Goenka directed chief reporter Ganapathy Sharma to sort out the issue. “We used to call him ‘Gunboat Jack’”, said Mr Nageswaran, “the chief reporter wanted me to meet Goenka and apologise to the inspector”.<BR/><BR/>Compare the above to the attitude of the editor of the Washington Post in early 1970s when he suspected that his ace investigative reporter Woodward was into something. After listening to the story, he was stupified, but gathering his senses quickly he said he had confidence in Woodward and would support him all the way. That story that Woodward brought was -the break in of the Watergate building in Washington DC, and the attempts made by the Presidents' White House henchmen Haldeman and Erlichman to bury the criminal act. Woodward supported by his editor broke the story and the rest is history. Washington Post issues then were in so much demand that most of them were sold out in the Washington DC area itself, and I at that time in a city in Midwest had to read them in my university library waiting in a queue!! The television versions were much edited as the reporting rights were tightly controlled by Washington Post. Despite this Walter Cronkite did a superb job in CBS evening news- after all he was a second world war reporter!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com